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DEDICATION 



OF THE 



DEDI^ATIQN'^T-^MONUMENT! 

— OF THE — 

7th, 10th and 37th Mass. Vols., 
At Gettysburg, Pa., 

October 6, i886. 



WITH THE 



DEDICATORY ADDRESS. 

By JAMES L. BOWEN, 

President of the 37th Regiment Association. 



SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 1886. 

PCBLISHED FOR THE COMMI'ITEE, 

By James L. Bowen. 



SPRINGFIELD, ."ilASS. : 

The Homestead Job Pkint. 






©EDICATORY IdDRESS. 



Mr. President, Comrades, Ladies and 
Gentlemen : 

Qtanding in this scene of peace and 
prosperity, looking forth over these 
smiHng valleys and beautiful villages, 
breathing the air of unity and concord 
which enwraps our entire land, from the 
Lakes to the Gulf and from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, it is not easy at once to 
transport ourselves, even in imagination, 
back to the days of civil strife, three and 
twenty years ago, and especially to that 
feverish season of suspense, those crucial 
hours of the first and second and third of 
July, 1863, when over and around these 
hills and valleys hung the battle clouds of 
the most momentous contest ever fought 
on American soil. 

Yet as we come to this spot to dedicate 
these monuments, in order to realize that for 



which they stand, and what they imply, it is 
necessary that we should temporarily leave 
the present with its joys and brightness and 
in fancy go back to those other days and 
scenes. We would not reawaken if we 
could the keen anguish of the former years, 
now soothed and softened by Time's effacing 
fingers ; the intense anxiety straining at the 
heart cords is happily only a memory ; least 
of all would we revive the passion and the 
fury of those days of deadly strife when the 
hand of brother was raised against brother. 
It is not to perpetuate these that w^e have 
erected here our monuments ; it is instead to 
mark an epoch in the world's history, a 
turning point in the destiny of a nation. 

In some form or another and for one 
purpose or another the memorial stone has 
been erected through all the ages of the 
past ; especially has its mission been to 
commemorate notable events and illustrious 
lives. Such are the shafts at Bunker Hill, at 
Baltimore, at Washington, and the one soon 
to be erected at Bennington. Such is the 
monument in yonder National cemetery, 



watching over the graves of nearly 4000 
illustrious men who died along these hills 
and slopes because they loved their country. 
Illustrious men, did I say? That in deed 
and in truth they were ; for while their lives 
may have been very humble and of little 
momeiu as the great world counts importance, 
we should never forget, comrades and friends, 
that to each and every one of these men his 
life was his all, and in giving that he gave as 
freely and as nobly as the most eminent 
citized and renowned patriot — gave all that 
he had and was on earth. 

Correlative and supplementary to that 
greater monument, we have placed these 
lesser ones, to show that organizations with 
which we were identified, and whose name 
and fame had become dear to us, bore part 
— not alone in what was done on this spot, 
but here and elsewhere in all that great 
struggle which had here its culmination and 
turning point. Here may be said to have 
been in every sense the central point in the 
great war of the rebellion ; these hights form 
a vantage ground, so to speak, from which 



we may look back to the beginning 
and hear the firing of the first gun at 
Sumter; may witness the surrender at 
Appomattox, the grand review at Washington 
and the fading from the vision of the scenes 
of blood and conflict. In point of time, the 
battle of Gettysburg stood midway ; two 
years had elapsed since the shot that 
awakened every loyal heart was fired, — 
years in which the cause of Union and 
liberty had trembled in doubt ; two years 
still in the future was the day when the 
steadily waning power of the rebellion 
should utterly collapse, and the old flag 
should float unstained and in triumph. 

So while we group our monuments. here, 
primarily to mark phases of this supreme 
conflict in which we had an immediate 
interest, ' in a broader sense they stand for 
all that had gone before and all that was to 
come in which the respective organizations 
had borne or were to bear part. And 
when years hence the aged survivor of these 
regiments or his descendants gaze upon 
these mementoes, they will recall, not alone 



the march to* Gettysburg, but he of the 
Seventh Regiment will think as well of 
Marye's Hights and Salem Church ; if of 
the Tenth he will recall Fair Oaks and 
Malvern Hill and the Angle at Spottsylvania ; 
to the Thirty-seventh will come memories of 
the Wilderness, of Winchester, of Petersburg 
and of Sailor's Creek — he will remember all 
the brave who laid down their lives, who 
suffered wounds or disease or imprisonment, 
and their memory shall become to him a 
more sacred and hallowed one as. he stands 
here and drinks in the inspiration of the 
realization of all for which these men offered 
themselves. 

Appreciating the importance that attaches 
and ever must attach to this battle, knowing 
how often in the future the student of 
history, the intelligent citizen, the interested 
sons and daughters of those who fought and 
perhaps died here, will turn to this spot to 
study the story of the battle and to imbibe 
lessons of patriotism, Massachusetts as a 
commonwealth led the way in providing that 
the positions occupied by her sons should be 



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marked by enduring monuments for each 
and every organization taking part in the 
battle. We say that Massachu-setts was the 
first state to provide that the position of her 
every regiment, battery and independent 
company should be suitably marked, and we 
are proud that to the old Bay State, in this 
direction as in* so many others, it was given 
to lead. Other states have followed the 
example, as still others will do ; and I hope 
that in the years to come many of us may 
wander again over these hills and through 
these valleys, finding here tablets to mark 
the spot where all the regiments and 
batteries fought, — not alone of those who 
wore the blue, but as well of those heroic 
souls who fighting against us, against progress, 
against destiny even, poured out their blood 
with a heroism which shall crown their 
names and their memories as long as time 
shall last. 

It is in pursuance of this action by our 
state that these memorial stones of the 
Seventh and Tenth and Thirty-seventh 
Massachusetts Regiments have been placed 



on this field, the appropriate locations having 
been decided upon by the committees of 
the several regiments in consultation with 
the government historian of the battle. 
Colonel John B. Bachelder, also a citizen of 
Massachusetts. It may seem necessary to 
explain why this particular spot was fixed 
upon, where the brigade took no active part 
in the contest, and only formed a supporting 
line, while on other parts of the field it was 
more severely tested. We must remember 
in this connection that not all battles are 
won by the fiercest encounters or through 
those operations which entail the greatest 
sacrifice of life ; and it was on this principle 
that the Second Brigade, Third Division, 
Sixth Army Corps, on the spot where their 
monuments have been placed (or strictly 
speaking at a point just in the rear of that 
location), by their timely presence at a 
critical instant of time, with the loss of but 
one man killed, contributed to an important 
result in the fortunes of the field. To 
illustrate this fully, and to show by what 
strenuous exertions these regiments were 



here, just where they were needed and at 
the time when their presence could be made 
most helpful, it will be necessary that we go 
back from the time of the battle and 
accompany them as they march to the field. 
The brigade had been first to cross 
Franklin's bridges at the opening of the 
battle of Fredericksburg, and last to return 
to the Falmouth side when the further 
prosecution of that disastrous contest had 
been abandoned. It had foundered through 
the mire and miser\' of the Mud march. It 
had occupied the winter camps where, 
especially in the case of the Thirty-seventh 
Regiment, disease had proved more deadly 
than the battle. It had stormed Marye's 
Hights on the memorable 3d of May, 1863, 
which the Seventh Regiment may well 
remember with pride, when it so gallantly 
led the brigade and won for itself 
imperishable renowm. On that self-same 
day the brigade had rendered noble sendee 
at Salem Church, where it had checked the 
almost triumphant legions of McLaws and 
sent them back to the shelter of the forest 



from which they had emerged. For 24 
hours, lying in the open field at the extreme 
front, a thin line of blue, with no better 
protection than a few rails, it had held the 
enemy's strong force at bay while ten times 
its number of Confederates gathered at its 
fi-ont and closed in upon the flanks till only 
a single avenue of escape remained. Through 
this the regiments effected a retreat more 
brilliant in execution than gratifying in the 
necessity, reaching the bridge in safet}-. 
regaining the Falmouth side of the river 
once more, — A^ith the sad consciousness that 
all the heroic la\-ing down of hfe had been 
but a waste, and that the campaign which 
had begun with such magnificent promises 
of brilliant victory had ended in discreditable 
failurej — for which neither the Sixth Corps 
nor its gallant commander, the honored 
Sedgwick, could be held blamable. 

Do you wonder why I recite these pre\ious 
incidents, and what bearing they may have 
upon the presence of the Second Brigade at 
Gettvsburg? Let us remember that it was 
thro' -h the school of such disheartening 



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experiences as these to which I have referred 
that the approaches to Gettysburg were 
made. Defeat, disappointment, disaster — 
these three words seemed to summarize the 
experiences of the brave old Army of the 
Potomac up to that hour. Where it had 
won victories on the field, as it had 
repeatedly done, the fruits of such victories 
had never been adequately realized. I do 
not in this connection reflect upon any 
commander — I do • not seek to place the 
responsibility — I only refer to the 
indisputable fact that I may attest in behalf 
of my comrades of the rank and file of that 
noble army the full and glorious measure of 
their patriotism. What had these men to 
gain — but exposure and suffering, sickness 
and wounds, captivity and death? Selfish 
consideration they had none save that their 
country, threatened with disruption and by the 
hand of a relentless foe, needed their aid— and 
their lives it might be. We are often times told 
that the old army became demoralized and 
disheartened during this period to which I 
have referred. While in one sense and to a 



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certain degree this may have been true, in 
the larger degree and the better sense it was 
not true. The sufificient answer to such 
assertions is found in the unshrinking charge 
after charge at Fredericksburg, the undaunted 
heroism of Chancellorsville and the attendant 
battles by the Sixth Corps^ and especially in the 
dearly-bought victory won on these hills of 
Gettysburg ! These battles were fought by 
men who had consecrated themselves to the 
service of their country under the 
commanders who should be set over them 
by the constituted authorities ; they regretted 
mistakes, they grew impatient of delays, it 
might be ; they did not delight in war, and 
even on the field of carnage shrank from its 
horrors ; but if duty called they could go 
unshrinkingly forth to death — and with an 
army whose foundation was such manhood 
as this, confident of the justice of their cause 
and trusting that in his own good time the 
God of Battles would lead them to complete 
success, there could possibly be but one final 
result. 



So when the bugles woke the sleepmg camp 
before hght of the morning of the 4th of June, 
and with eight days' rations the Sixth Corps 
took its way once more to Frankhn's crossing, 
there was the usual cheerful obedience to 
orders, the ever present hope that this time 
something worthy the effort would result. 
Then it was that Eustis's Brigade began its 
part in the Gettysburg campaign, four full 
weeks before the meeting of the rival armies 
on these hights. For ten days, almost 
without sleep by night or day, now on one 
side of the Rappahannock and then on the 
other, building fortifications, standing or lying 
on the skirmish line, now exchanging shots and 
anon tobacco and coffee with the Confederate 
picket lines, ever alert, never sure at one 
moment what the next might have in store, the 
Sixth Corps was engaged in demonstrations 
intended to assist in uncovering the real 
purpose of the enemy. Then in a pouring 
rain on the night of the 13th the pickets 
were withdrawn, the bridge was recrossed 
and with a few hours' rest the command 
faced to the north and began its part in that 



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series of masterly moves by which " Fighting 
Joe Hooker" outgeneraled the Southern 
commander, forced the invaders to take a 
different route than they had intended, and 
finally brought them to this historic spot and 
to defeat. 

Those participating will remember the 
marches which ensued, beginning with seas of 
mud through which the wheeled vehicles 
went only by spasms, and the tired soldiers 
— wearied and needing rest even when 
the march began — picked their way as best 
they could. But the summer sun quickly 
dried the mud into dust that brought yet 
greater torture for the marching columns. 
There was scarcely halt by day or night till 
the defenses of Washington were reached 
and Eustis's Brigade sank weary on the 
ground near Fairfax Station. There one day 
of rest was enjoyed, when beneath a burning 
sun the regiments marched to Fairfox Court 
House, the exhausted men dropping all along 
the way from sun-stroke, and for six days the 
brigade bivouacked on the wide expanse of a 
shadeless plain, whose sands glowed beneath 



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the fierce rays of a summer sun, while a 
single roily, muddy spring furnished 
thousands of men with the few mouthfuls 
of un drinkable water they were able to 
obtain. Glad of any change the brigade 
moved to Centerville and reheved troops 
that immediately marched away to the 
northward. On the morning of the 26th 
of June, the Seventh and Tenth and Thirty- 
seventh, with the other regiments of the 
brigade, followed. Five days later the Sixth 
Corps halted *a hundred and twenty-five 
miles from the weather-worn intrenchments 
of Centerville. Rain had fallen nearly every 
day, some of the time heavily ; but over the 
slippery roads, torn by thousands of wheels 
and pulverized by tens of thousands of hoofs 
and feet, through beating storm and 
sweltering heat, the determined corps had 
made an average day's march of 25 miles 
for five days in succession ! 

Then the exhausted soldiers, who had 
already performed a series of marches 
rarely equaled in history, rested for 
something like 24 hours. The corps had 



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reached Manchester, more than 30 miles 
from the spot where we now stand, and in 
the rear of Pipe Creek occupied the right of 
the position in which General Meade hoped to 
fight the impending battle. It was not so to 
be. Even while the weary battalions of the 
Greek Cross were tleaning their muskets 
and resting their limbs, the advance of the 
two armies had met beyond Seminary Ridge 
and the great battle of the war had begun. 
General Meade had not meant to fight at 
Gettysburg — General Lee had not meant to 
fight at Gettysburg ; but may we not reverently 
believe that a Power greater than the power 
of any earthly commander had directed the 
movements of the armies of earth? 

Far away at Manchester the boom of the 
cannon was heard, and the idling soldiery 
speculated indifferently as to its cause. x\s 
the day waned the sounds ceased, and were 
scarcely given further thought. The dusk of 
evening was gathering, the shelter tents had 
been pitched, and the tired men were 
already stretched beneath them or lounging 
in the vicinity, anticipating a refreshing 



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night's rest, when about head-quarters came 
a quick bustle, orderhes dashed here and 
there, bugles rang, drums beat, the little 
villages of canvas disappeared as by magic, 
and the quickly formed column filed out on 
the highway. The Sixth Corps had begun 
the most famous march in its history. 

To do full justice to the effort which 
followed we must not forget the circumstances 
under which it was made. We must recollect 
that the men began the long march at an 
hour when they were to wrap themselves in 
their blankets for much-needed rest and 
sleep. The few hours' respite which they 
had enjoyed had been merely sufficient to 
reveal the extent of the exhaustion which 
their previous long marches had induced. 
And worst of all, so far as the physical 
comfort of the soldier was concerned, the 
recent change in commanders and in 
methods in the commissary department had 
left the men without food in their haversacks ; 
so that when this march began scarcely one 
in ten had rations sufficient for a single meal. 

Under such circumstances the heroes of 



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the Sixth Corps turned their faces toward 
the battle-field. I need not recall the long 
night march ; how the head of the column 
mistook the road and before the error was 
discovered and the steps retraced added six 
or eight miles to the distance ; the incessant 
plodding of men almost asleep as they 
moved ; the final coming of morning light 
and the brief stop beside a pleasant 
water-course where a few of the more 
energetic had time to make a cup of coffee ; 
then the warning of the bugles and the 
resumption of the march before there was 
opportunity to bathe the swollen feet or the 
dust-filled eyes. The sun arose, mounting 
higher and higher, and the interminable 
hours of the forenoon dragged away while 
the column moved on and on and on. 

Only the participant in like experiences 
can realize the misery of the ceaseless 
march through the long, sultry hours. It 
was a broiling July day. The sun poured 
down with merciless, unbroken heat, and 
the dust that rose in great clouds from the 
highway enveloped man and horse, general 



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and private soldier alike, in its all-embracing 
mantle of torture. How the exhausted 
lungs panted for one cool, pure breath ! 
Panted only to be mocked by the bitter, 
burning, dust-laden air that seemed to come 
from the mouth of a furnace. What wonder 
that the sun-stroke was omnipresent along 
the line — that strong men gasped and 
staggered and fell, while the thick blood 
burst from mouth and nostrils, and the 
tortured frame was placed tenderly in some 
shaded nook by comrades whose visions 
swam and who trembled on ,the verge of a 
like fate? Yet the winding column never 
paused, for not the life of one man but the 
life of the nation was at stake that day. 

Late in the afternoon the column crossed 
Rock Creek, and how welcome was the halt, 
even in the open field, on the gowing hill-top, 
where the sinking sun still poured its 
scorching rays. Roll-call showed how 
admirably the men had responded to the 
demand upon them. The Thirty-seventh 
regiment, with its quota of over 600 that 
had set out the night before, showed but 



seven absent, and all these, with the 
exception of one deserter, were in their 
places before the battle ended, and by a 
strange fatality nearly every one was killed 
or wounded the following day. 

All who have followed the history of the 
battle know the story of the coming of the 
Sixth Corps to the field. It was the last to 
arrive, as the distance it must march was so 
much greater, and when its cloud of dust 
down the Baltimore pike was first noticed there 
was a momentary fear that the Confederate 
cavalry had gained the Union rear. Then 
the headquarters flag was descried, and 
sight of the Greek Cross was never more 
welcome. "The Sixth Corps is coming!" 
went from lip to lip, and hearts that had 
been anxious grew strong and confident. 
Before the footsore, weary men had time for 
rest their services were needed to reinforce 
the Union left, hard pressed by Longstreet's 
Corps, and at the call the men struggled to 
their feet. Kevin's Brigade, which had led 
the corps on that memorable day, scarcely 
paused beside the pike, but on to the left it 



went to give assistance to the suffering Third 
Corps. Over the slope it hastened into the 
fight. Eustis's Brigade came next in hne, 
and halting on the hot hill-top it had barely 
realized how terrible had been the 20 hours' 
march when it, too, heard the ringing call 
to duty, sprang to its feet and in a moment 
was moving across the fields toward Little 
Round Top. When half way a second 
message came back from General Sedgwick, 
who at the front was watching the fortunes 
of the day. "Tell Colonel Eustis to bring his 
brigade here as soon as possible ! ^' The 
Thirty-seventh, leading the column, heard 
the word and broke at once into a double- 
quick. The Tenth followed and the Seventh, 
while the men of Rhode Island were not 
less prompt at the call. There was no 
laggard step in all the brigade. Bayonets 
were fixed as the command dashed forward, 
and with a precision that would have done 
credit to the drill field the brigade swung 
into line of battle with the right resting near 
the headquarters of the brave Sedgwick, just 
to the rear of the spot where the monuments 
now stand. 



But the conflict was dying out. Longstreet's 
battalions were shattered by the terrible 
contest they had already made, and in one 
of his reports he says that riding forward to 
reconnoiter and seeing the strong lines of 
fresh troops coming into position he 
reluctantly gave the order to abandon the 
contest. Yes, there were strong lines of fresh 
troops there ; they had marched more than 
i6o miles in six days to reach that spot, 
crowni^ig the effort with a continuous journey 
of almost 40 miles to enable them to present 
that firm front at that important moment ; 
and though their advent was not greeted by 
a fresh effusion of blood, but rather by the 
sparing of further slaughter, on that position 
we place our monuments and dedicate them 
in reverent memory of that magnificent 
effort — and of all its associate efforts and 
experiences. 

On this spot, then, let them stand, in 
memory of the sons of Massachusetts, who 
as a part of the great loyal army here as 
elsewhere at duty's call, with their comrades 
from every other loyal state, welcomed 



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wounds and suffering, yielded up without 
repining limb or life, if the sacrifice was 
demanded, that humanity's cause should 
move forward and not backward. 

God's ways are not our ways. We look 
back over the score and more of years that 
have elapsed since these hills trembled with 
the roar of hostile cannon, and our hearts 
bleed afresh as we recall those scenes of 
consecration and sacrifice. But with the 
light of the later day we see coming forth 
from the fiery crucible the pure gold of a 
grander and better national life ; up from the 
baptism of blood there rises a nation 
redeemed and purified. We mourn for 
noble Hves laid down in this sacred cause, 
but we hold to-day as their price our common 
heritage of a united country, its interests 
and destinies no longer threatened by 
sectional lines and jealousies, but fostered 
and unified by all the blessings which have 
followed the travail of those days of war. 
The dawn which assured this better era first 
shed its brightness over these hills of 
Gettysburg, and all who in those memorable 



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hours of battle stood here contributed to 
the grand result. 

It is in recognition of these facts that the 
various monuments dot this battle-field. As 
part of a common legacy we have placed 
here the memorials of the Seventh and 
Tenth and Thirty-seventh Massachusetts 
Regiments, that they may help to tell the 
great, complete story of the battle. One by 
one the men who composed these regiments 
are dropping from the earthly roll, but when 
the last survivor shall have gone, the 
monuments will remain to silently give their 
testimony. The impress of time will be 
written on their surfaces in stain and 
corrosion ; but no less eloquent shall be 
their voiceless story. May all who coming 
here look upon them go away with a stronger 
and purer patriotic fire burning in their 
hearts ! May the breezes which sweep over 
this sacred spot bear to every son of America 
the constant realization of the blessing 
which is his in this government — so 
appropriately epitomized in the words of 
the immortal Lincoln, "Of the pecjple, by 



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the people, for the people," — till the dearest 
possession of the generations succeeding us 
shall be the legacy secured by the deeds 
which these stones commemorate. 

Then indeed shall those brave men over 
whose graves in yonder cemetery this 
Battle-field association and all the citizens 
of our common country keep tender watch, 
with all their comrade martyrs, not have 
died in vain. Then in truth shall every sigh 
of agony breathed by suffering ones, and 
every drop of blood shed in this sacred 
cause, prove the seed of a nobler civilization, 
whose beneficent influence shall reach all 
humanity, to sweeten and brighten and 
bless. 






liSTQRY i .Monuments. 



During the session of 1883, largely through 
the influence of Colonel John B. Bachelder 
of Hyde Park, the Legislature of-. Massachu- 
setts passed a resolve appropriating $5000 
''for the purchase of additional grounds of 
special interest upon the battle-field of 
Gettysburg, for acquiring right of way as 
contemplated by the act incorporating said 
[Battle-field Memorial] Association, and for 
preserving and beautifying said battle-field." 
This act was approved May 29, iS8;^, and in 
August following a meeting of representatives 
of the various Massachusetts commands 
engaged in the battle was called at the State 
House, where the action taken and that 
proposed were fully explained by Colonel 
Bachelder. It was at that time intended 
that under the head of "preserving and 
beautifying" the battle-field the position of 
each ^slassachusetts organization engaged 



should be marked for each day of its presence 
at the battle by the placing of iron tablets. 
In order to determine the various locations 
satisfactorily, it was decided that a general 
excursion of Massachusetts veterans and their 
friends should be made to the field, to fix 
upon the positions that should be marked, 
and a committee to carry out the plan was 
chosen, consisting of Colonel Charles H. 
Hovey (13th) of Roxbury, Joseph W. Thayer 
( 1 2th) of Chelsea, T. J. Hastings (15th) of 
Worcester, James L. Bowen (37thj of 
Springfield, and Milbrey Green (ist Battery) 
of Worcester, to which Colonel Bachelder 
was added by virtue of his interest in all 
pertaining to the battle-field. 

This excursion with 133 members left 
Massachusetts on the evening of October 
23, and reaching Gettysburg the following 
evening passed the 25th and 26th in the 
work of inspecting the ground, locating and 
marking positions occupied during the 
battle. Eustis's Brigade was represented 
on this occasion by Colonel Franklin P. 
Harlow, Captain Zeba F. Bliss and W. T. 



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\\'ilde of the Seventh oSIassachusetts, Joel H. 
Hendrick and S. K. Hindley of the Tenth, 
James L. Bowen, S. F. Wood, Cyrus W. 
Cross, Dwight M. Chapman, and Wilham F. 
Abbott of the Thirty-seventh. The interests 
of their regiments being identical, these 
members acted in concert and decided on 
the position near Little Round Top where 
the brigade first formed line of battle on 
reaching the field, lying through the night, 
as the location for the second day of the 
battle — the first of their presence. The 
positions for the third day were fixed on the 
Taneytown road, where in passing from the 
center toward the left the brigade encountered 
a very severe artillery fire which killed and 
wounded over thirty members of the Thirty- 
seventh in a few moments. Subsequently, 
through the efforts of Colonel Bachelder, 
permission was granted the brigade to move 
its tablets for the second day forward to the 
Battle-field Avenue, directly in front of the 
position where the regiments lay in line of 
battle, and there the tablets were placed by 
Colonel Bachelder the following spring. 



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In the mean time, the Legislature of 
Massachusetts had by a resolve approved 
March 25, 1884, voted to each organization 
from the state the sum of S500 to assist in 
the erection of monuments on the field. 
The three regiments of the brigade, therefore, 
accepted this proffered assistance toward the 
expense of more satisfactory memorials than 
the tablets at first proposed would have been, 
and decided after consultation with the 
members of the several committees and 
Colonel Bachelder that they should be 
erected to mark the second day's position, 
as being the more important historically. 
The granite shafts, accordingly took the 
place of the tablets along the Avenue near 
the Rosensteel buildings, the directors of the 
Battlefield Memorial Association assenting to 
the location with the provision that tablets 
should be erected stating the exact location 
of the line of battle in the rear. The 
monument of the Second Rhode Island, 
forming the left of the brigade, has since been 
added, completing the brigade line. Between 
it and the monument of the Seventh 



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Massachusetts Regiment that of the First 
Massachusetts Cavalry has been erected, — a 
location which meets with criticism. 



The Monument of the Tenth Regiment. 



The Tenth Regiment Association, at its 
reunion held at Northampton, June 21, 1884, 
appointed H. M. Converse of Warren and 
Joel H. Hendrick and S. K. Hindley of 
Springfield a committee to select the design 
for a monument and secure its construction 
and erection on the proper site. As the men 
who composed the Tenth Regiment were 
almost wholly from Western Massachusetts, 
it was felt that the memorial to be erected to 
them should itself be a product of that part 
of the state. The design adopted was 
originated by Captain J. K. Newell of 
Springfield and was intrusted to the artist M. 
H. Mosman of Chicopee for perfection and 
reproduction in granite and bronze. The 
monument is one of the most artistic on the 
field. The square granite pedestal, 6 feet 6 



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inches in height, bears the inscription on 
finely polished panels, "loth Massachusetts ; 
2d Brigade, 3d Division, 6th Corps. July 2, 
1863." Surmounting the granite is a fine 
bronze design, representing a stack of muskets 
with fixed bayonets. Resting on the stone 
and rising in a pyramid within the stack are 
a drum, knapsack, cartridge box and canteen, 
the two latter dependent from the guns. The 
total hight to the points of the bayonets is 
13 feet 6 inches, and the structure cost, 
including the turfing of the ground, $1002.25. 
The granite was furnished by the Chester 
Granite Company, by whom it was dressed 
and finished. The monument was placed in 
position early in October, 1885. 



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The Monument of the Thirty-seventh 
Regiment. 



The Thirty-seventh Regiment Association, 
at its annnal meeting at Westfield, September 
19, 18S4, voted to accept the offer of the 
state to assist in the erection of a monument 
to the regiment at Gettysburg, and appointed 
a committee to carry out the details, 
consisting of James L. Bowen of Springfield, 
S. E. Nichols of Buffalo, N. Y., H. ]\L Abbott 
of Northampton, Andrew L. Bush of 
Westfield, A. G. Taylor of Springfield, 
(since deceased,) Joshua A. Loomis of 
Easthampton and George C. Clapp of 
Northampton. This comnlittee, after in- 
specting numerous designs, unanimously 
decided upon one drawn expressly for the 
regiment by Miller & Luce of Boston, at 
whose works in West Quincy the monument 
was made. The shaft represents the trunk 
of a tree, against which lean a brace of 
muskets and a stand of colors, the folds of 
the flag enwrapping a portion of the trunk, 



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while from a branch hangs a knapsack ; the 
whole finely chiseled from a single block 
of granite. The shaft rests upon a double 
base, on the upper of which in large raised 
letters, very handsomely polished, is the 
inscription : "37th Mass. 2d Brig. 3d Div. 
July 2, 1863." A scroll at the foot of the 
tree bears the Greek Cross badge of the 
Sixth Corps. The entire structure is placed 
upon a large native bowlder, the top of which 
was dressed down to receive the monument 
which rises about nine feet above the rock. 
It was placed in position early in July, 1885. 
Its cost was $800. 



The Monumenx of the Seventh Regiment. 



The monument of the Seventh Regiment 
was constructed from a design by Lieutenant 
Harrie A. Cushman of Taunton, Secretary of 
the "Regimental Association, and was made 
and placed on the field by John B. Sullivan 
of Taunton. The base, 18 inches high, 4 
feet wide and 5 feet long, is of High Rock 



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granite from Wrentham, Mass., and bears a 
die 3 feet wide, 4 feet long and 4 feet high 
of Concord Granite. On the top of the 
monument, finely worked in the granite, is 
the Greek Cross of the Sixth Corps, with 
crossed muskets, sword and a soldier's 
regulation cap bearing the figure 7. On 
the front panel is the inscription : "7th Mass. 
Inf'y ; 2d Brig., 3d Div., 6th Army Corps." 
The monument cost the amount of the state 
allowance — $500 — and was procured and 
placed under the direction of Lieutenant 
Colonel Franklin P. Harlow and Lieutenant 
H. A. Cushman, being the first monument 
erected to a Massachusetts regiment under 
the act of the Legislature, and Lieutenant 
Cushman being the first to obtain from the 
state treasury the allowance for the purpose. 



Tlie Excarsten te Setly^barg. 



At a meeting of the joint committees of 
the Tenth and Thirty-seventh Regiments it 
was decided that an excursion for the purpose 
of dedicating the monuments of those 
regiments should be had ; the first full week 
of October, 1886, was selected as the time, 
and the matter of making all necessary 
arrangements was placed in the hands of 
Comrade James L. Bowen, President of the 
Thirty-seventh Regiment Association. It 
was also voted that Mr. Bowen be asked to 
deliver the dedicatory address for the two 
Associations. Invitations were extended to 
the Seventh Massachusetts and Second Rhode 
Island Associations to join lilie party and 
participate in the exercises. This was 
accepted on the part of the Seventh Asso- 
ciation by its President, James G. Church of 
Brockton, who appointed a committee to 
represent his regiment and and requested that 
the dedicatory address by Mr. Bowen should 



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also include in its scope the Seventh Regiment. 
A general Rhode Island Excursion being 
already in contemplation for the second week 
of October, no action was taken by the 
regiment from that state toward joining its 
Massachusetts comrades. 

Careful preparations were made to insure 
for all participants an enjoyable excursion, 
complete in its details and at the lowest 
possible cost. The presence and services of 
Colonel Bachelder (almost indispensable to a 
perfect comprehension of the various features 
of the battle) were secured, a general program 
of movements about the field was arranged 
and teams and special trains were engaged 
so that the time should be fully utilized and 
the various points of interest systematically 
and inexpensively visited. Mr. Yingling, 
proprietor of the Eagle Hotel at Gettysburg, 
undertook to arrange for the comfortable 
quartering of the entire party at his hotel and 
in boarding house near by. Besides these 
arrangements for the party while at Gettysburg 
great pains were taken to secure the most 
favorable terms from the various transportation 



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companies, not only for the passage of the 
excursion proper but from those routes over 
which participants would pass in joining the 
main body. A side trip was also arranged 
from Philadelphia on the return to Washington 
and Fredericksburg, Va. Special rates were 
arranged for with the Pennsylvania, New York, 
New Haven & Hartford, Boston »Sc Albany, 
Connecticut River, New Haven & North- 
ampton and Housatonic Railroads, the New 
Haven and the Bridgeport steamer companies. 
The excursion proper started from Spring- 
field at 7.50 p. m., Monday evening, October 
4, going by rail to New Haven and thence by 
steamer to New York. Delegations joined 
the party at Hartford, New Haven and Jersey 
City in considerable numbers while two were 
taken on at Philadelphia. Soon after reaching 
the dock at New York the party w^ere met 
by Mr. John H. Markley, the efficient and 
gentlemanly traveling passenger agent of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, who as the represent- 
ative of his company was indefatigable 
during the journey to and from Gettysburg 
in caring for the comfort of the travelers. 



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Most of the party, taking the Fulton Ferry 
on leaving the boat, crossed to Brooklyn, 
whence they were transferred by the Annex 
boat to the Jersey City station of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, where they break- 
fasted and at 9.16 o'clock set forth by special 
train. Stopping at Philadelphia for dinner, 
the party sped through the fertile agricultural 
region of Southern Pennsylvania, by way of 
Harrisburg, reaching Gettysburg shortly 
before 6 p. m. 

^lore delightful October weather never 
favored an excursion party than was enjoyed 
on this occasion, and it was improved to the 
full by the visitors to the historic field. 
While a few "flocked by themselves" to visit 
scenes in which they had a special interest, 
the great body of the party joined in the 
program which had been arranged in advance. 
Wednesday forenoon was accordingly given 
up to a visit to the National Cemetery and 
the right of the Union line from that point, 
Colonel Bachelder, who had joined the party 
at Jersey City, giving descriptions of the 
events pertaining to the several locations from 



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East Cemetery Hill, on Gulp's Hill at the 
monument of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania 
Regiment, and at the Second Massachusetts 
monument near Spangler's Spring. This trip 
was made by most of the party on foot, and 
at its termination all returned to town for 
dinner. 

At 2 p. m., a special train was taken over 
the Battlefield Railroad for Little Round Top 
and the party generally joined with the 
One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania 
Association, who had reached town with an 
excursion party during the previous night, in 
the dedication of their monument, which 
stands in the field almost directly in front of 
and but a few hundred yards from those of 
Eustis's Brigade. At the close of the 
exercises at the monument. Colonel Bachelder 
briefly described the incidents ofthe battle 
in that vicinity, when the party returned to 
the train and to the town for supper. 
Arrangements had meantime been made for 
a joint meeting in the evening at the 
Gettysburg Rink of the two visiting Associ- 
ations, instead of the separate meetings which 



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their original programs had contemplated. 
Accordingly, at an early hour all the seating 
capacity of the building was taken up, and 
back of the seats hundreds were standing. 

The exercises of the Massachusetts 
delegations came first. Captain Joshua A. 
Loomis of the Thirty-seventh presiding, and 
prayer being offered by Chaplain George F. 
Smith of Post 86, G. A. R. After music by 
the band the dedicatory address for the three 
Massachusetts monuments was delivered by 
Mr. Bowen, at the conclusion of which the 
monuments were formally surrendered to the 
Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association 
by representatives of the different commands, 
President Church speaking for his Association 
and Treasurers H. M. Abbott of the Thirty- 
seventh and Joel H. Hendrick of the Tenth 
for their respective committees. The latter, 
in closing his remarks said : "The men 
representative of a regimental committee 
cannot adequately charge your x\ssociation 
with this duty, nor can these citizens of our 
state who unite with us in these ceremonies ; 
neither can these comrades who here wore 



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the Blue 23 years ago. But, with whatever 
of authority there may be in unanimity of 
sentiment, Massachusetts herself bids, ' Take 
care of yonder sacred trophies. See that no 
enemies less invincible than time and the 
elements destroy a memorial which marks 
the place where my sons stood in defense of 
the Union.' " 

Hon. David A. Buehler, vice-president 
of the Association, receiving the trusts, 
responded eloquently, paying a glowing 
tribute to the Old Bay State and the 
patriotism of her sons. 

During this part of the exercises a small, 
beautiful cannon with complete carriage had 
stood on the front of the stage. It had 
been made by citizens of Gettysburg from 
relics gathered on the field for presentation 
to Colonel Bachelder, and had awaited the 
presence of the Massachusetts citizens to 
give an especial zest to the occasion. The 
presentation now took place, S. McC. Swope, 
Esq., in a speech of rare power and 
eloquence tendering the beautiful gift in 
behalf of his fellow-citizens, and the 



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recipient making appropriate acknowledg- 
ment. By the kindness of Colonel Bachelder, 
arrangements were made by which the 
cannon was exhibited at the Springfield 
Grand Army fair the following week, while 
on its way to the Colonel's home at Hyde 
Park. 

The meeting was then turned over to the 
Pennsylvania party, the dedicatory address 
for the monument of their regiment being 
delivered by Major Samuel Harper of 
Pittsburg, Judge F. H. Collier, colonel of 
the regiment following with remarks warm 
with fraternal regard for the Massachusetts 
comrades. Vocal and instrumental music, 
rounded out an evening of rare enjoyment. 

After breakfast Thursday morning the 
party to the number of 196 took carriages 
furnished by Ziegler & Holtzworth and drove 
to the scene of the opening of the battle, 
July I, 1863, where the beginning of the 
fight was described by Colonel Bachelder. 
Thence the procession took its way to the 
'' Webster Regiment " monument, where the 
later deeds of the first day's battle were 



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depicted ; thence back through the town and 
along the Emmittsburg road to the scene of 
the Sickles fight, passing the Peach Orchard, 
the Wheat-field, stopping at the Devil's Den 
for another descriptive lecture and a 
photograph, and following the Avenue back 
to the scene of Pickett's final charge and 
repulse, the details of which were graphically 
described by Mr. Bachelder, with many 
interesting incidents in his experience as 
historian charmingly interwoven. From this 
point the party drove to the town, dismissing 
the carriages, and after dinner again took a 
special train on the Battlefield railroad, 
landing at the rear of Little Round Top, 
whence the party proceeded first to the 
monuments of Eustis's Brigade. Several 
fine photographic views were made at the 
monuments, both of general groups about 
each of the memorials and of the survivors 
of each regiment beside their respective 
monuments. Repairing to the summit of 
Little Round Top, the party listened to 
another of Colonel Bachelder's admirable 
descriptions, closing very satisfactorily the 
general field excursions of the party. 



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The evening was devoted to a gathering in 
the court-house, which was filled with 
members of the excursion and citizens of 
the town. Mr. Bowen presided and the 
evening was given up to remarks of an 
informal character, the principal speakers 
being General Henry S. Briggs and Colonel 
Joseph B. Parsons, the first and last 
commanders of the Tenth Resfiment, 
Colonel Bachelder, and Hon. David A. 
Buehler of Gettysburg. The latter spoke 
eloquently, treating at some length of lessons 
to be drawn from the war, and not forgetting 
to compliment Massachusetts and New 
England in his earnest, whole-hearted 
manner. 

Some members of the party had already 
set out for home, or to pursue special trips 
in some other direction, but more than 165 
took the special train on the return Friday 
morning at 8 o'clock and bade adieu to the 
historic battle-field. A few miles out the 
excursion of John A. Andrew Post, G. A. R., 
was passed, bound for the town which the 
party had just left. At Philadelphia a 



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division took place, some 75 members of 
the party joining the side trip to Washington, 
while the remainder continued the homeward 
journey. 

The south-bound section quartered princi- 
pally at the St. James and National Hotels. 
During the following afternoon the general 
sight-seeing was interrupted most agreeably 
by a special reception given to the party at 
the White House by President Cleveland, 
the arrangements for which were kindly made 
by Colonel John L. Rice, postmaster at 
Springfield, Mass. Late that afternoon over 
30 of the party took cars for Fredericksburg, 
Va., and passed the following day very 
pleasantly in and about that city, visiting 
many points of interest, including the 
National Cemetery on Marye's Hights, the 
battle-field of Salem Church and those 
nearer the city, while a few made excursions 
to Chancellorsville and Spottsylvania. Num- 
bers of ex-Confederates were met at 
Fredericksburg, who without exception gave 
a cordial greeting to the visitors and showed 
them many courtesies. 



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The return to Washington was made 
during the evening of the loth, and from 
that time the organized character of the 
excursion disappeared. The party broke 
into small squads, each making such 
disposition of the time as best met 
individual tastes and opportunities, and 
returning home by various trains as 
inclination or duty prompted. With scarcely 
an exception the verdict of the participants 
was that the time and money spent for the 
trip had been well invested. The weather 
had been superb, no accident l:iad marred 
the pleasure of the occasion, the arrangements 
generally proved satisfactory, while many 
incidents not on the program had given a 
pleasant variety to the experiences of a 
well- filled week. 



Rs^ter 0f ExcarMsn. 



COMMITTEE. 

James L. Bowen, Chairman, (E, 37th) Springfield 
Joel H. Hendrick, (F, 10th) 

James G. Church, (B, 7th) Brockton 

Hubbard M. Abbott, (G, 37th) Northampton 

Joshua A. Loomis, (E, 37th) Easthampton 

W. H. Gurney, (K, 7th) Whitman 



Peter King, (46th Mass.) 

Mrs. Peter King, 

M. T. Lazell, 

Moses Warriner, 

B. F. Thompson, 

W. D. Phelps. 

Mrs. W. D. Phelps, 

Winthrop Howard, (4:2d Mass.) 

Col. John L. Bice, 

(2d N. H., 7oth U. S. C. T.) 
Allen Bice, (age 6) 
Mrs. Helen N. Packard, 
Gurdon Bill, 



Springfield 



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George R. Price, (5th Mass. Bat.) Springfield 

J. C. Condon, (Bat. C, 5tli U. S. Art.) 

Frank H. Bowen, " 

Mrs, Juliaette Walker, " 

Job Dearnley, " 

Charles G. Whiting, « 

E. A. Newell, (46th Mass.) 

P. Norton, (17th Conn.) Merrick 

I. W. Coomes, (I, 37th) Longmeadow 

Thomas F. Cordis, (46th Mass.) " 

Henry Hall, (D, 37th) East Longmeadow 

Oliver Wolcott, " 

George A. Bray, (20th N. Y. S. M.) Holyoke 

Reran Ryan, (A, 10th) 

W. F. Wheelock, (1st Mass. Cav.) 

Samnel Snell, " 

Charles Tower, (46th Va., Conf.) 

H. R. Tower, 

E. C. Hanks, (F, 37th) South Hadley Falls 
Charles Church, (o2d Mass.) " " " 

F. E. White, 

Burritt Judd, (52d Mass.) " " " 

H. C. Russell, (F, 37th) North Hadley 

F. P. Wheeler, (F, 37th) Hadley 
Mrs. F. P. Wheeler, 

R. F. Underwood, (31st Mass.) Mount Tom 

Mrs. R. F. Underwood, " " 

A. P. Barton, (o2d Mass.) Granby 



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R. G. Carter, North Amherst 

C. H. Brewster, (Acljt. 10th) Northampton 

A. G. Carley, 

Col. J. B. Parsons, (10th) 

C. H. Heald, (2cl Mass.) 

Mrs. C. H. Heakl, 

Calvin B. Kingsley, (C, 10th) 

Mrs. CalvmB. Kmgsley, 

John Strong, 

Robert H. Gallivan, 

N. S. Cornwell, (C, 10th) 

Mrs. N. S. Cornwell, 

Alvin Rust, (C, 10th) 

S. B. Parsons, 

Oscar F. Ely, 

Samuel Lloyd, 

H. L. Williams, 

Edward H. Wade, (14th Conn.) 

Mrs. Edward H. Wade, 

Frank C. Clapp, (52d Mass.) 

Jeremiah Brown, (52d Mass.) 

Mrs. Jeremiah Brown, 

S. R. Cooley, 

George L. Cooley, (F, 37th) 

S. B. Fuller, Florence 

George F. Smith, (31st Mass.) " 

O. M. Smith, 

George H. Ray, (18th Conn.) 



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(I. F. Miller, 

Mrs. G. F. Miller, 

Edward M. Ferry, (52d Mass.) 

Mrs. Edward M. Ferry, 

Mrs. J. A. Loomis, 

S. C. Wood, (27th Mass.) 

A. S. Chapman, 

Joseph P. Coburn, (G. 10th) 

J. H. Howard, (C, 10th) 

C. S. Shattiiek, 

William Bancroft, 

Talcott Bancroft, (D, 37th) 

M. H. Vincent, (H, 10th; 

E. F. Wiley, (F, 37th) 
Jason Mann, (16th Vt.) 
Mrs. Jason Mann, 

A. F. Cobb, 

M. J. Benjamin, (22d Mass.) 

F. C. Walworth, 

J. F. Bartlett, (H, 10th) 

Mrs. J. F. Bartlett, 

Charles Henry, 

John M. Wells, (GOth Mass.) 

Edwin Stratton, (F, 37th) 

Samuel D. Conant, 

W. H. A'dams, (G, 10th) 

Mrs. W. H. Adams, 

Elliott ! Gillett, 



Florence 
Easthampton 

Hatfield 

(( 

(( 
Chesterfield 

Conway 

Sunderland 

Montao'ue 



Tun 



Falh 



Greenfield 

a 
(( 

Orange 
Shelburne Falls 



S. F. KimbaU, (B, 10th) Xoitli Adams 

Mrs. S. F. KimbaU, " " 

L. J. Clark, 

Mrs. L. J. Clark, 

James C. Chalmers, (G, 37th) Adams 

Reuben A. Whipple, (8th Mass.) 

Charles F. Savles, (o3d Mass.) " 

O. Fred Smith, (G, 37th) 

H. H. Wellington, (o3d Mass.) 

Thomas Riley, (D, 10th) « 

John Hammond, (125 X. Y.) « 

F. A. Morey, South Williamstown 

Miss Morey, ': '• 

Jesse Prickett, (E, 10th) Pittsfield 

Mrs. Jesse Prickett, " 

Gen. Henry S. Briggs, (10th) " 

W. B. Rice, 

Daniel J. Dodge, (Q. M. 37th) 

Mrs. Xancy X. Dodge, " 

C. H. Fuarey, (C, 37th) West Stockbridge 

William M. Kniffin, 

(Pay'r Dep.) 
James P. Carpenter, 

(16th X. Y. Cav.) 
C. W. Kniffin, (49th Mass.) 
V. R. Truesdale, 

James S. Moore, " " 

Levi Huntley, (B, 37th) Great Barriugton 



William H. Mansfield, 

J. A. Brewer, 

A. L Hubbell, 

A. J. Hunt, (1st Mass. Cav.) 

Frank H. Wright. 

H. W. Sikes. (C, 37th) 

W. H. BaHey, (C, 37th) 

William J. Simmons, (E, 37th) 

F. D. Loomis, 

Mrs F. D. Loomis, 

J. D. CacUe, 

Adam Swan, (K, 10th) 

Cornelius Sackett, (K, 10th) 

Mrs Cornelius Sackett, 

Andrew Campbell, (46th Mass. 

Theodore Manee, (33d X. Y.) 

J. R. :Mnier, (33d Mass.) 

A. W. Lewis. (46th Mass.) 

Frank Midlen, 

C. E. Peck, 

William H Bridgman. 

James Xoyes, 

Byron W.'charles, (46th Mass. 

S.^ W. Bridge, (2d X. H.) 

George Bliss, (34th Mass.) 

F. Drury, (age 87) 

George A. Drury, 

James A. Black* (3-2d Mass.) 



Great Barrington 



Sheffield 

Van Deusenville 

Dalton 

Westfield 



Wilbraham 

Belchertown 

Brimfield 

Warren 



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D. W. Ainsworth, 


Ware 


F. P. Clark, 


(( 


George Fairbanks, 


(( 


John Osgood, (6th N. H.) 


(( 


George S. Marsh, 


i( 


S. A. Spooner, (31st Mass.) 


" 


Col. John B. Bachelder, 


Hyde Park 


Mrs. John B. Bachelder, 


a a 


Charles B. Frhik, 


Roslindale 


E. R. Pearson, (F, 37th) 


Boston 


E. E. Kelly, (I, 7th) 


(( 


A. M. Pierce, 


« 


John L. Parker, (22d Mass.) 


Lynn 


Levi Cole, (K, 7th) 


Brockton 


E. F. Howard, (H, 7th) 


" 


Mrs. E. F. Howard, 


a 


J. A. Leach, (K, 7th) 


Whitman 


Jerome Washburn, (38th Mass.) 


« 


Jacob L. Batchelder, 


(( 


John C. Chace, (F, 7th) 


Taunton 


F. R. Washburn, 


■ " 


Alfred A. Seaverns, (E, 7th) 


North Scituate 


Charles E. Staples, (C, 7th) 


New Bedford 


Earl P. Bowen, (A, 7th) 


Fall River 



VERMONT. 



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Henry Burnliam, (16tli Vt.) Putney 

Frank Burnham, 

Walter Crawford, 

F. L. Pierce, 

Mrs. F. L. Pierce, 

George H. Phillips, (14tli Vt.) 

Mrs. George H. Phillips, 

L. P. Bailey, (16th Vt.) 

Mrs L. P. Bailey, 

Samuel A. Shattuck, (2d Vt.) Westminster West 



CONNECTICUT. 



William H. Looniis, (K, 10th) Rockville 

Mrs. William H. Loomis, 

G. N. Brigham, (14th Conn.) 

Mrs. G. N. Brigham, 

Francis Goodell, 

Henry J. Marshman, 

William H. Andross, 

John J. Schwartz, 

Fred A. Farley, (F, 37th) Pine Meadow 

Walter S. Case, New Hartford 

I. W. Charter, (14th Conn.) East Haddam 

A. F. Fargo, (A, 10th) Bridgeport 



S6 

S. E. Joslin, 

George H. Holmes, (A, 10th) 



East Thompson 
Xew Britain 



T. C. Lawton, (Surg. 37th) Providence, R. I. 

S. S. Williams, (C, 10th) 

William H. Rnssell, 

William Bliss, (G, 37th) 

J. M. Faurey, (C, 37th) 

P. R. Brown, (o2d Mass.) 



New York City 

Troy, N. Y. 

Vineland, N. J. 

Philadelphia, Penn. 



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